Where is the Justice Dept Anti Trust Division? On vacation? sound asleep?

 Micro$oft, a massive company, who owns the desktop and laptop operating system buisiness, and Word and Excel, and a bunch of other stuff, wants to buy Activision, a video game maker (Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Candy Crush, and some other stuff).  The deal is said to be $75 billion.  That's quite a chunk of change, even for Micro$oft.  

   This should not be allowed.  Micro$oft is entirely too big right now.  We don't need a Micro$oft that is $75 billion bigger.  Anti trust ought to send Micro$oft a nasty gram and threaten to take them to court if they push this deal thru.  That is what the anti trust division of DOJ is for.  Lets have them earn their pay.

Why do we care about Corona virus testing?

    We can tell if someone is ill by talking to them, taking their temperature and doing those med school things that doctors are taught in med school.  If the person doesn’t think he/she is ill, and a face to face examination fails to reveal any illness, why do we care about a lab style test?  If the test reports illness in an obviously well patient, the test has reported a false positive.  Do we need to run a laboratory style test to determine that a person is ill?  I think not. 

   And, test results are subject to change without warming.  You can test negative in the morning and catch Corona virus in the afternoon. 

   Why bother messing around with tests?  If you worry about catching Corona virus, get yourself vaccinated. 

Who Runs the Biden Administration (WRBA)?

I think Joe Biden signs what they put before him and says on TV what appears on his teleprompter.  I don’t think Joe writes his own stuff, someone[s] does it for him and he pretty much signs it or says it. 

I have never heard who these invisible controllers might be.  Only suggestion was from Instapundit a while ago.  He thought Joe’s wife Jill was doing the controlling.  Instapundit just said this, he didn’t offer any evidence.  I haven’t heard anyone else offer suggestions.  It could be coming out of the White House staff.  It might be some Svengali like character of whom we have never heard.  It could be anyone anywhere.  

I haven’t heard much if any discussion as to who it might be.  Who ever it is, he/she wields a lot of power. 

 

You would think the Australians ...

 Could have figured out a way to have the world's champion player, Novak Djokovic play in the Australian open.  I mean just one guy isn't going to release the Black Death in Australia, even if he manages to sleep with a couple of cute chicks who want to be able to say they slept with a world champion athlete.  I would think the publicity advantages to having a world champion competing in the Australian Open would override any health worries. 

Great Snow storm peters out

 The weather wienies have been talking up a huge snow storm for today.  Well, we get some snow, but so much of it was blown into the weeds that it doesn't look like much now.

Beat The Press beats on Joe Biden.

They started off describing this last week as bad for Biden.  In detail, and harsher than I have heard a leftie TV show like Beat the Press than I have heard.  More like Fox News than the nice democrat MSM. 

   They showed majority democrats jumping all over Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema for refusing to vote to kill the filibuster.  Filibuster, for those of you just coming to this story, is a Senate rule allowing any Senator to require a 2/3rds majority to pass most bills.  It protects the minority from the tyranny of the majority, something that has been a problem for democracies since Pericles ran Athens.  For the majority to push thru something that the minority is against, the filibuster requires a good solid majority, not a tie vote broken by the vice president.  The current 50-50 split of senators makes calling for a filibuster a bill killer.  The democrats have some bills they want to pass that will never get 60 votes, so they want to scrap the filibuster and allow anything to pass with 51 votes.  Fifty democrats plus a democrat vice president will get them 51 votes.

   Frankly, the way things look today, the democrats will be in the minority by next year.  At which time they will need a filibuster to prevent the Republicans from walking all over them with track shoes.  Manchin and Sinema seem to understand this, Chucky the Schumer and Nasty Pelosi seem oblivious. 

 

Facebook Breakup.

Fox news was talking about some judge will now allow the suit to break up Facebook to go forward. Fine by me. Then Fox had a bunch of talking heads talk about the possible Facebook breakup. None of the talking heads understood what a breakup is about. You take a monopoly, Facebook is surely that, and break it up into two or more pieces that are supposed to compete with each other.

In that way one piece of Facebook, lets call it Goodbook, does things that attract users and advertisers. The other piece, call it Badbook, does things that repel users and advertisers. Pretty soon the suits at Badbook notice that they are losing ground to the competition, and order changes to make Badbook more competitive.

The talking heads were talking about regulation. In this case, all the important decisions of Facebook are done by a small cadre of programmers, writing in C or C++ or some networking computer language are the only documentation that means anything.

Regulators cannot read computer code (most of 'em cannot read comic books) and so, not knowing what is really going on, cannot effect it. In short, a regulator of Facebook can draw his pay but cannot change the way Facebook does things.

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